Our Team

Meet the experts

Top Performers From the Big Four and Other Leading Firms

DAVID LANDAU, CPA, CVA

Founder & CEO

Phil Ramacca, CPA

President & COO

Keith Snyder

Partner - Internal Audit

Scott Levy, CPA

Partner - New England Practice and Accounting Advisory Group Leader

Kevin Baldwin, CPA, ABV

Partner - Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support Group Leader

Kathleen Lauster, CFA

Managing Director - Capital Advisory & Restructuring Group Leader

Arlene Pottinger, CPA

Managing Director- Internal Audit

Dennis Christoforatos

Managing Director & CIO - Advisory Services

Errol Labosky, CPA

Managing Director - Internal Audit

STELLA BAZILEVS

Managing Director - Accounting Advisory

Danielle Dietrich

Director - Human Resources

JASON ADDESSO, CVA

Director - Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support Group

Jesse Liszkiewicz, CPA

Director - Accounting Advisory

Erkhan Murad

Director - Internal Audit

CHRISTIAN VARDELEON

Director - Internal Audit

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David Landau, CPA, CVA

David Landau is the Founder & CEO of DLA, LLC and has served in this capacity since founding the firm in 2001. David is a recognized expert in forensic accounting and financial matters relating to litigation. David has served as a financial expert in the areas of matrimonial matters, business valuation, construction fraud, partnership disputes, lost profits, employee investigations, restrictive covenant issues, internal control deficiencies, SEC investigations, and various real estate cases. David has provided testimony on behalf of clients.

Prior to forming DLA, David worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in the Mergers & Acquisition Advisory Services department serving a variety of industries. His responsibilities included performing advisory due diligence for buy-side LBO and strategic clients ranging from $10 million to $4 billion. In addition to his Mergers & Acquisition Advisory Services experience, David worked for Ernst & Young LLP performing financial audits of American Express (Europe), Lehman Brothers, Bankers Trust, and McGraw Hill. David was also the CEO of Alumnipride.com, Inc., a social media website he founded in 1997 and sold in 2000.

David co-authored the tax section of New Jersey Family Law – 2^nd Edition. David also presents and lectures on various litigation issues, including hidden income, asset tracing, business valuation, and cost-effective strategies for settlement. Some of his recent speaking engagements include:

- “Valuing a Member’s Interest in a Private Equity Fund” – American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
- “Business Valuation and Forensic Accounting in Divorce” – New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Symposium
- “How Business Owners Hide Income in a Divorce” – American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- “Cost Effective Ways to Utilize a Forensic Accountant in a Divorce” – New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section
- “Business Valuation in Divorce” – NJICLE Matrimonial Math Course
- “Handling Financial Issuers in Divorce – From Moderate to High Net Worth Clients” – AAML

David has been involved in numerous matters, including:

- Identifying and determining pre-marital, marital and post-complaint assets subject to equitable distribution
- Investigating a developer accused of improperly using funds
- Reviewing of records to determine if intercompany transactions were used to hide improper loans
- Investigating owners of closely-held businesses to identify hidden assets and income
- Investigating Joint Venture partners to determine if accounting controls were proper and if the partner was committing fraud
- Performing an asset tracing of a husband accused of misappropriating over $20 million from his wife and children
- Performing valuations on various closely held businesses for the purpose of litigation
- Investigating an employee on behalf of an Audit Committee to determine if they committed fraud with a General Contractor
- Representing a client that felt it acquired a company that misrepresented its business and financial operations
- Serving as a financial expert for plaintiffs and defendants in matrimonial actions where pendente lite support, lifestyle, cash flow, hidden assets, and business valuation were being litigated
- Performing forensic audits of insurance carriers that improperly paid broker commissions
- Identifying a significant recovery for a client whose employee improperly disbursed millions of dollars of firm capital
- Serving as a financial expert for a company seeking damages from a competitor for breach of restrictive covenant

Prior Work Experience

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Ernst & Young, LLP

Alumnipride, Inc.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Pennsylvania State University – B.S. in Accounting

Certified Public Accountant (NY)

Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)

Member of the Finance and Accounting Consultants Alliance (FINACA)

Formerly a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board at the Pennsylvania State University

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: David.Landau@dlallc.com

Kevin Baldwin, CPA, ABV

Kevin Baldwin is a Partner at DLA, LLC and heads the Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support practice. Kevin has over ten years of business advisory expertise including matrimonial and commercial litigation support, forensic accounting, business valuation, and tax consultation. Previously, Kevin was a Director in the Advisory Services department of a large regional accounting firm and currently lends his expertise to several industry organizations, as well as his professional affiliated organizations.

Kevin’s practice is focused on matrimonial litigation support, business valuation, and forensic accounting. He also advises on specific and complex tax issues arising from marital dissolution. Kevin has been engaged by attorneys to represent high net worth clients in divorce matters and to value business enterprises, such as early childhood education and daycare facilities, medical practices, and real estate development and construction firms. He has consulted on matters of equitable distribution between spouses, cash flow analysis, diversion of assets and income, and marital lifestyle analysis.

Kevin presents and lectures on topics such as business valuation, tax aspects of divorce and settlement agreements, and matrimonial accounting. His speaking engagements include:

“Valuing a Member’s Interest in a Private Equity Fund” – American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
“Matrimonial Math: 9 Key ‘Equations’ You Need to Master to Succeed” – New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
“The Subjective Components of Valuation Reports Which Every Attorney Should Know” – Middlesex County Bar Association
“Reasonable Compensation: Key Factors to be Considered” – 2015 NJSBA Family Law Retreat
“Business Valuation – Determining Pre-Marital Value and Other Income” – Jersey Shore Inns of Court
“Beyond Your ‘Normal’ Normalization Adjustments ‘Fixing the Books’” – 2012 AICPA/AAML National Conference on Divorce
“Business Valuations Terms and Concepts and ‘Rules of Thumb’” – Middlesex County Bar Association
“The 411 on Case Information Statements” – Young Lawyers Division of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association
“Business Valuations ‘What Every Attorney Must Know’” – Marcum LLP Seminar Series
“Tax Aspects in Divorce and Matrimonial Accounting” – MarcumRosenfarb, LLC Seminar Series
“Tax Aspects of Settlement Agreements” – MarcumRosenfarb, LLC Seminar Series
“What to Look for on a Tax Return” – RosenfarbWinters, LLC Seminar Series

Prior Work Experience

Marcum LLP

RosenfarbWinters, LLC

Paychex, Inc.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Monmouth University – Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA); Accounting Concentration

Certified Public Accountant (NJ)

Member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accounts (NJCPA)

Member of the Monmouth/Ocean County Litigation Support Committee

Honorary board member of “The Next Generation Foundation” – a not-for-profit cancer organization

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: Kevin.Baldwin@dlallc.com

Kathleen Lauster, CFA

Kathleen Lauster, CFA is a Managing Director at DLA, LLC and heads the Capital Advisory & Restructuring practice. She leads the DLA team in providing expert financial support and advising companies and creditors with strategies to unlock capital and maximize recoveries in distressed, restructuring, and special situations. DLA assists companies with their liability management, helps raise capital, and advises on the sale of their businesses. Additionally, DLA unlocks liquidity for private equity sponsors, providing tailored liquidity solutions to limited partners in secondary transactions.

Kathleen has over 20 years of global financial services and commercial real estate experience, working for and advising firms in Europe and the U.S. with their capital raises, restructurings, asset management, and valuation. Kathleen has a deep understanding of the economic, operational and institutional aspects of credit, structured securities, and the derivatives markets, focused on fundamental valuation. Her clients have ranged from early stage ventures to Fortune 500 firms.

Prior to joining DLA, Kathleen served as a Managing Director of Restructuring and Corporate Finance at Silver Leaf Partners, LLC., where she focused on Capital Advisory and Special Situations in the middle market space. Before that, Kathleen was a Senior Vice President within Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring and Real Estate Strategic Advisory Practice, where she advised U.S. and European creditors and debtors in both healthy capital raises along with illiquid, distressed, and restructuring scenarios. Her clients included the Icelandic Banks, Bank of Ireland, GGP, Capital Trust, Lehman Brothers, UBS, the National Asset Management Agency, and CIT Group, Inc.

Prior Work Experience

Silver Leaf Partners, LLC

Houlihan Lokey

Church Tavern Advisors, LLC

Deloitte Consulting

First Chicago NBD Bank (now part of JP Morgan Chase)

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

University of Michigan Ross School of Business – MBA with Distinction

Michigan State University – BA Finance, BA International Relations

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Registered Securities Representative (SIE, Series 62, Series 63)

Co-Leader, Dealmaker’s Outreach on behalf of the Association for Corporate Growth

Member, Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, and 100 Women in Finance

“Kathleen Lauster is Registered Representative of BA Securities, LLC. Member FINRA SIPC.”

Dennis Christoforatos

Dennis Christoforatos is a Managing Director and CIO at DLA, LLC with over thirteen years of experience. Prior to joining DLA, Dennis served as a liaison between the accounting and IT department at American Home Mortgage. Dennis was responsible for testing new applications and introducing them to the accounting department. In conjunction with testing new applications, Dennis also wrote procedures and trained front end users on the applications. One of his major roles was managing special projects between departments. Dennis also coordinated the change management system for SOX compliance and designed and implemented the disaster recovery testing for the accounting department.

Dennis’ professional expertise includes IT controls, project management, system selection and implementation, process improvement and optimization, financial and technology auditing, cyber security, forensic accounting and management consulting. Dennis has assisted several major clients in the documentation and testing of IT General Computer Controls and Computer Application Controls relative to the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Some of Dennis’ client engagements include Apollo Global Management, Fortress Investment Group, Newcastle Investment Corp, TPG, Blackstone, Abbott Capital, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., Ladder Capital, Starwood Capital Group and Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp.

Dennis has helped clients address organizational and process optimization in accounting and operational business functions. He has assisted clients with the evaluation and comparison of their current business processes to leading practices, and with the design and implementation of “to-be” processes including: organization structure and staffing; policies, procedures and systems; supporting technology; and internal controls. In addition, his experience involves forensic accounting involving the analysis and audit of large quantities of transactions. Dennis is also familiar with assisting clients in the analysis of their technology functions for improvements including strengthening their cyber security controls, and helping clients create user manuals and training of staff.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Adelphi University – MBA in Corporate Finance
University of Albany, SUNY – B.S. in Finance and Public Law

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: Dennis.Christoforatos@dlallc.com

Errol Labosky, CPA

Errol Labosky focuses primarily on DLA’s real estate clients. For over 20 years, Errol has had extensive experience in internal audit, specializing in the real estate industry and REIT marketplace.

Prior to joining DLA, Errol served as a Senior Vice President, Internal Audit for nearly a decade at Vornado Realty Trust. Errol provided strategic leadership and guidance regarding the internal control environment, enterprise risk management framework, and operations initiatives in support of this REIT. He led the Internal Audit Department with reporting responsibilities to the Board of Trustees and executive management. In this capacity, Errol restructured the audit approach to concentrate on strategic, operational, reputational and regulatory risks. He partnered with the IT and Operations teams to implement solutions for cyber-related risks, a secure bank transfer portal, elevation of encryption levels for sensitive internal documents, and bolstering of endpoint protection. Errol collaborated with and advised business owners on the successful re-engineering of control processes, including enhanced screening for new vendors and migration to a paperless travel & entertainment system. Errol collaborated with senior management and the Board of Trustees to create an enterprise risk management framework. He regularly advised senior management and the Board on existing and emerging risks and the implementation of mitigation strategies.

Errol also served as an Inspections Specialist at the PCAOB previously in his career. In this role, he conducted inspections of audit work papers of the Big Four accounting firms with an emphasis on the firms’ largest clients. He also partnered with the Standards Group in the preparation of an exposure draft related to a proposed PCAOB standard.

Preceding the PCAOB, Errol was at Deloitte for 12 years reaching the level of Senior Manager where he supervised, coached and evaluated large teams on multiple engagements. His responsibilities included oversight of all facets of audit engagements, including managing relationships among client senior management and firm leadership. Errol also ensured the adequacy of financial statement disclosure requirements and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.

Errol Labosky is a graduate of D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University with his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business Management. Errol is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and New Jersey.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Northeastern University, B.S., Accounting, Business Management

Certified Public Accountant – New York & New Jersey

Chartered Global Management Accountant

Institute of Internal Auditors

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: Errol.Labosky@dlallc.com

Danielle Dietrich

Danielle Dietrich is the Director of Human Resources for DLA, LLC. She has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources Management. Her expertise includes HR policy and process, benefits & compensation design and administration, performance cycle management, staff recruitment, the development of training programs, compliance and labor law and employee relations, including staff coaching.

Danielle started her career in the NYC office of Kirkland & Ellis, a Chicago based law firm specializing in private equity, restructuring, and intellectual property. While at Kirkland, Danielle worked closely with support and legal staff alike to arrange and conduct orientation and training sessions. She was responsible for all human resources administrative duties and ensuring overall employee satisfaction. A majority of Danielle’s career was spent at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a firm which specializes in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers, corporate and securities law and corporate governance, where in 12 years’ time she was promoted from a Human Resources Assistant to Coordinator and eventually to a Human Resources Generalist. As a HR Generalist, amongst other things, Danielle was mainly responsible for all aspects of recruitment, from determining the effectiveness of a recruiting plan to onboarding and training.

As the Director of Human Resources for DLA, Danielle originates and leads Human Resources practices and objectives to provide an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes quality, productivity and standards. Her duties include administration of the performance management process and employee retention. She oversees the health benefits for the Firm’s employees and serves as the 401k administrator managing retirement plans and accounts. It is also Danielle’s responsibility to create sourcing strategies and lead recruitment efforts for all support staff and audit positions for DLA. She advises managers on fair hiring practices and employee performance issues to reduce corporate liability and manages all legal and compliance issues to be in accordance with the law.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Rutgers University – The School of Communication, Information and Library Services, Bachelor of Arts, Communications

Member of Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM)

Member of The National Human Resources Association (NHRA)

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: Danielle.Dietrich@dlallc.com

Jesse Liszkiewicz, CPA

Jesse Liszkiewicz is a Director in the Accounting Advisory Practice at DLA, LLC, based out of NYC. He had experience planning, supervising, and performing integrated audits of SEC-filing companies in the Entertainment, Media, and Communications industry, including CBS Corporation, The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, as well as financial statement audits of privately-owned companies such as Mediacom Communications Corporation and Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.

Prior to joining DLA, Jesse served as an Assurance Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for nearly 10 years. He reviewed and prepared detailed audit testing in areas including revenue, business combinations, divestitures, pensions, stock-based compensation, goodwill and intangible assets, and financial reporting.

Jesse managed teams to conduct audit procedures and ensure work papers and documentation met PCAOB-regulated quality standards. He interacted and coordinated with, as well as reviewed the work performed by various lines of services, inclusive of information systems, tax, valuations, and other specialists.

He also played a significant role in training staff. Jesse assisted with helping clients adopt new accounting standards, including internal controls, in addition to preparing and leading client presentations. He developed and managed engagement budgets and was responsible for organizing financial data to present to partners and key client contacts.

He also negotiated annual audit fees as well as additional billing opportunities with clients.

Besides his day-to-day responsibilities, Jesse also participated in recruiting events and acted as a mentor for Assurance Senior Associates and Associates by participating in firm-wide employee coaching programs, aside from contributing to annual performance assessment discussions.

Education, Certifications & Affiliations

Master of Business Administration, Finance, Rutgers University

B.S., Accounting, Rowan University

Certified Public Accountant (NJ)

Recipient of the Outstanding Business Student Medallion Award

Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Member of Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society

Contact Information

Address: 55 Lane Road, Suite 310 Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 575-1565
Fax: (973) 575-1615
Email: Jesse.Liszkiewicz@dlallc.com

Our Team

Meet the experts

Top Performers From the Big Four and Other Leading Firms

DAVID LANDAU, CPA, CVA

Founder & CEO

Phil Ramacca, CPA

President & COO

Keith Snyder

Partner - Internal Audit

Scott Levy, CPA

Partner - New England Practice and Accounting Advisory Group Leader

Kevin Baldwin, CPA, ABV

Partner - Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support Group Leader

Kathleen Lauster, CFA

Managing Director - Capital Advisory & Restructuring Group Leader

Arlene Pottinger, CPA

Managing Director- Internal Audit

Dennis Christoforatos

Managing Director & CIO - Advisory Services

Errol Labosky, CPA

Managing Director - Internal Audit

STELLA BAZILEVS

Managing Director - Accounting Advisory

Danielle Dietrich

Director - Human Resources

JASON ADDESSO, CVA

Director - Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support Group

Jesse Liszkiewicz, CPA

Director - Accounting Advisory

Erkhan Murad

Director - Internal Audit

CHRISTIAN VARDELEON

Director - Internal Audit

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13 Considerations to Reduce Construction Project Risk During These Challenging Economic Times

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